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Yes it's a great place, unless you are a woman, gay, hindu, christian, black, or basically any kind of a minority (including shia in a sunni area, or vice versa).

I would say maintain the status quo, pax americana to keep the oil flowing and beat up anyone who tries to disrupt it (like Saddam). Meanwhile work on discovering oil in other places, or new energy tech, so that backwards ass part of the world with their medieval cultures slides into irrelevance.

How it is today is a direct result of over 60 years of us interventionist foreign policy. That's the point.

Maintaining the status quo is ridiculous.

Originally Posted by MrBungle

If 3/4 of all the money spent on defense was diverted into education funds, public school would be dirt cheap

Originally Posted by Jack_Sparrow

99% of human resource offices are paid for by grants (non-tax dollars).

Fine, even accepting that, that still leaves 700 years of complete shit, still a long time before the USA came around and ruined everything.

That "golden period" has really been juiced up to mythical proportions, it was hardly shangri-la in islamic lands, they were just marginally better than western lands of the period. Also let's not forget that these lands did not exactly willingly join the Caliphate, they were acquired via bloody conquest.

Fine, even accepting that, that still leaves 700 years of complete shit, still a long time before the USA came around and ruined everything.

That "golden period" has really been juiced up to mythical proportions, it was hardly shangri-la in islamic lands, they were just marginally better than western lands of the period. Also let's not forget that these lands did not exactly willingly join the Caliphate, they were acquired via bloody conquest.

Marginally better? lol

The Roman Empire was formed via bloody conquest also. Doesn't change its 'value-added'. Same goes for the US.

Originally Posted by MrBungle

If 3/4 of all the money spent on defense was diverted into education funds, public school would be dirt cheap

Originally Posted by Jack_Sparrow

99% of human resource offices are paid for by grants (non-tax dollars).